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RE: How to remove invalid remote repository

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MSMatt Seitz <seitz@neopathnetworks.com>
Date
Jun 5, 2007, 20:57 UTC
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From: Linus Torvalds [mailto:torvalds@linux-foundation.org]
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> Well, this is because you apparently didn't call the remote 
> "origin", but something else. So when you do
> 
> 	git fetch
> 
> without giving any remote name at all, git will *default* to 
> using "origin" as a remote,

Ah, I see now. I misread that section of the "Git User's Manual". Using 

git fetch root-etc
worked fine.
Sorry to have bothered everyone with my error.
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